HABIT FORMATION AND FEELING QUALITIES 313 



learn, they aided in fixing the boxes." F reported that move- 

 ments easily visualized were pleasant, otherwise unpleasant. 

 And in making a report on the feeling tone of mimetic move- 

 ments before the case observed that the movements well known 

 were pleasant and those unknown otherwise, and that being 

 known was not conditioned in any way on the feeling quality 

 arising out of the movement, but rather on its results. Surely 

 results are functions of feelings, and no doubt often obscure 

 those arising from other sources, especially those from kinaes- 

 thesis; just as the pleasant affective tone of recognition 

 may be obscured by the feelings accompanying the ob- 

 ject of recognition. I am fully persuaded that these subjects 

 either mistook and confused the feeling quality of the move- 

 ment for that accompanying the result, or else the feeling tone 

 of the latter completely obscured that of the former. The proof 

 that the feeling tone of a movement is independent of any cog- 

 nitive element is seen in the reports of A, E, and I who knew the 

 location of the boxes and had synthesized many of the move- 

 ments, yet were still sensitive to their agreeable, disagreeable, 

 tense and relaxed qualities. The relation between the direction 

 of a movement and its readiness to serve skilful purposes is par- 

 tially conditioned on the nature of the feeling quality involved, 

 as we shall see. 



C. Rate of learning and feeling tone correlated 



1. Inhibitions (hold ups). One of the most striking and per- 

 sistent experiences connected with the distribution was the fact 

 of inhibition. Its chief sources lay (1) in the plan of the work 

 governing the substitution of the suits, (2) in the manner of 

 stacking the cards, particularly as to the order of the suit, and 

 (3) in the manner of labeling the boxes, the details of which have 

 already been described in " Plans and procedure." This ar- 

 rangement facilitated the elimination of superfluous movements 

 to a minimum, if not to a vanishing point and at the same time 

 developed a system of more or less rigid motor habits. For a 

 time practice accentuated the constituent movements and fav- 

 ored a description of their conscious aspect. In this conscious 



